Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Abalkin plan had tight deadlines for closing down or leasing unprofitable state enterprises , ( industry by the beginning of 1991 , state and collective farms by 1992 ) , Mr Ryzhkov gave no cut-off date . |
| 2 | Men are more likely than women to be ‘ economically active ’ , that is , in effect , to be in or seeking paid employment outside the home ( see Figure 2.8 ) , but this difference is decreasing with time ( see Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 3 | Prominent among these factors are increased social and geographical mobility consequent upon greatly increased educational opportunity and a rapidly changing economy ; the marked trends over recent decades towards smaller families , higher marriage rates and earlier marriage ; and the growing numbers of women continuing in or re-entering full-time work . |
| 4 | In our clinic we have constructed a centile graph for percentage ideal or desirable bodyweight based on medium frame size , so that knowing actual weight and height we can derive the percentage ideal bodyweight at a glance without calculation ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 5 | Stubbs cites many other examples of how written language may involve structural ambiguity so that making grammatical sense of it depends on context and the knowledge the reader brings to the text ( e.g. ibid. p. 59 ) . |
| 6 | What about the ‘ Sensitive Mimosa ’ which has its own version of the flexion reflex so that flicking one leaf collapses all the leaves on that branch ? |
| 7 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 8 | It often involves looking at problems afresh and giving serious consideration to ideas which have traditionally been regarded as impossible or is practicable . |
| 9 | Layers of organic muds of swamp origin will be interspersed with wedge-shaped horizons of marine sediments thinning landwards and representing marine advance , however this may have been caused , levees of coarser sediment will follow the courses of former distributaries , while fanshaped spreads of such material will mark the sites of levee breaches . |
| 10 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 11 | remember going in and seeing this film and , it just it did n't it was so to my mind , and you know thinking back now , my memory of it was of a sort of very dark and dreary |
| 12 | He came in and trampling this brake fluid all over the carpet . |
| 13 | Chairman Sir Ian McLaurin said shoppers are tightening their belts and ‘ trading down and buying cheaper food -such as bread , lemonade and frozen chips ’ |
| 14 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 15 | In setting down and discussing that theory we are , therefore , dealing with the " official " view of British politics — with the view that dominates public discussion and the accounts in the media . |
| 16 | We can not create reasons just by intending to do so and expressing that intention in action . |
| 17 | He and Gina went on living together and nagging each other quietly . |
| 18 | Er the three options were joint authorities er this would mean er unitary authorities within an area joining together and forming some sort of er joint committee arrangements and joint staffing arrangements to prepare a plan over a wider area . |
| 19 | The feeling of comradeship now in Liverpool , the feeling that everyone was in it together and helping each other , was something that her mother would never understand , she felt , nor her grief for the baby . |
| 20 | Partnerships aim to improve the educational and vocational opportunities of young people by working together and understanding each other 's needs and objectives . |
| 21 | On Sept. 20 , 1989 , Pierre Bérégovoy , Minister of State for Economy , Finance and Budget , announced a 1990 budget designed to keep inflation down while sustaining economic growth . |
| 22 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 23 | They fitted it in while doing normal training on Jaguars and Harriers . |
| 24 | The material takes the form of supported self-study packages , so a student can work through most of the material alone while maintaining regular contact with a tutor . |
| 25 | Decline due to ageing is nearly always imperceptible , noted only when comparing present ability with that of many years past . |
| 26 | Deputy secretary Anthea Rose has stepped in as acting chief executive while a replacement is found . |
| 27 | the correct positioning of an image especially when printing one colour on another . |
| 28 | Druggies , as she calls them , are the most frightening inmates , especially when undergoing cold turkey , but surprisingly , ‘ the murderers are usually the gentlest ’ . |
| 29 | By contrast , in a literary passage , especially when using verbatim scoring ( see Harrison , 1980 , for a discussion of different cloze scoring methods ) , a cloze score may misrepresent understanding by being artificially low . |
| 30 | It is also advantageous to be able to prepare sample fractions , whose homogeneity is considerably better than the parent polymer , especially when testing dilute solution theory . |